Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

- Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

1.

If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.

Franklin, Billy Boy

2.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

3.

When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

4.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Speakes, Larry

5.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

7.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Twain, Mark

8.

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Plato

9.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Williams, Tennessee

10.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

11.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Thatcher, Margaret

12.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

13.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

Beecher, Lyman

14.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

Steiner, George

15.

No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

Frost, Robert

17.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

18.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Greene, Graham

19.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

20.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

21.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

22.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Twain, Mark

23.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Rowland, Helen

24.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Voltaire

25.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

26.

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

Milosz, Ceslaw

29.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

30.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.

Zohar

32.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

33.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Miller, Henry

34.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Luce, Clare Boothe

37.

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Haig, Alexander

38.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

Feather, William

39.

This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Talmud, The

40.

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.